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October 5, 2015
 

SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings 10.3-4.2015

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday October 3 through Sunday October 4, 2015. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. Click here for sports ratings from the same NFL and college football weeks or the same calendar weekend last year.

NFL: Week 4

Sunday
7.19 rating 9:30 am CBS NYJ-MIA from London (vs 6.6 in 2014 on FOX Oct 26 DET-ATL)
10.48 rating 1 or 4 pm CBS Single (vs 8.2 in 2014 and 9.4 in 2013)
(JAX-IND OAK-CHI HOU-ATL KC-CIN CLE-SD) Regional Coverage Map
9.65 rating 1:00 pm FOX Regional (vs 10.1 in 2014 and 10.2 in 2013)
(NYG-BUF CAR-TB PHI-WAS)  Regional Coverage Map
16.40 rating 4:30 pm FOX National (vs 16.7 in 2014 and 18.5 in 2013)
(GB-SF MIN-DEN STL-ARI)  Regional Coverage Map
14.78 rating 8:20 pm NBC (DAL-NO) (vs 13.7 in 2014 for NO-DAL and 13.6 in 2013 for NE-ATL)

College Football: Week 5

Saturday
1.99 rating ABC 12:00 pm Texas at #4-TCU
4.54 rating ABC 3:30 pm #1-Ohio State at Indiana or Texas Tech at #5-Baylor Regional Coverage Map
4.18 rating CBS 3:30 pm #13-Alabama at #8-Georgia
2.45 rating ESPN 7:00 pm #3-Ole Miss at #25-Florida
1.84 rating FOX 7:30 pm Arizona State at #7-UCLA
4.75 rating ABC 8:00 pm #6-Notre Dame at #12-Clemson
1.52 rating ESPN 10:00 pm Oregon at Colorado

Note: Football regional coverage maps from 506sports.com

Golf

PGA
Returns next season

Auto Racing

NASCAR Xfinity Series
0.62 rating NBCSN 5:30 pm Saturday Hisense 200 (Dover, DE)

NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
1.80 rating NBCSN 2:30 pm Sunday AAA 400 (Dover, DE)

INDYCAR
Returns next year

FORMULA ONE
Returns Oct 11 with Russian Grand Prix

MLB

Saturday
1.16 rating FOX 1:00 pm LA Angels at TEX Rangers or KC Royals at MIN Twins

Sunday
n/a rating TBS 3:00 pm LA Angels at TEX Rangers

Soccer

Premier League
Saturday
0.23 rating NBCSN 7:45 am Crystal Palace vs West Brom
0.39 rating NBCSN 10:00 am Manchester City vs Newcastle
0.16 rating USA 10:00 am Sunderland vs West Ham
0.81 rating NBC 12:30 pm Chelsea vs Southampton

Sunday
0.39 rating NBCSN 8:30 am Everton vs Liverpool
0.61 rating NBCSN 11:00 am Arsenal vs Manchester United

Other

n/a

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About the Author

Mitch Metcalf
MITCH METCALF has been tracking every US film release of over 500 screens (over 2300 movies and counting) since the storied weekend of May 20, 1994, when Maverick and Beverly Hills Cop 3 inspired countless aficionados to devote their lives to the art of cinema. Prior to that, he studied Politics and Economics at Princeton in order to prepare for his dream of working in television. He has been Head of West Coast Research at ABC, then moved to NBC in 2000 and became Head of Scheduling for 11 years.